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The freeing of someone from slavery.
What is emancipation?
He was the 16th President of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the major issue between the North and South.
What is slavery?
This region relied on enslaved African Americans to perform cheap labor, while all states north of Maryland had abolished slavery by 1804.
What is the South?
He was an American abolitionist who opposed slavery in a militant manner.
Who is John Brown?
Lack of fairness or justice.
What is injustice?
The American Civil War lasted from 1861 to this year.
What is 1865?
Lincoln’s announcement was called the Emancipation Proclamation, and he issued his executive order on January 1 of this year.
What is 1863?
April 9, 1865: The Civil War ended when the Confederacy surrendered to them.
What is the Union?
Frederick Douglass was born in Talbot County in this state.
What is Maryland?
Engaged in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
What is rebellious?
This abolitionist never knew his exact birth date or specific details about his family.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This was a movement in the North that called for the legal end to slavery in all of the United States.
What is abolitionism?
After hearing about this, many enslaved African Americans ran away to meet the Union Army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Say something in a solemn and emphatic manner.
What is declare?
A person’s education, experience, and social circumstances.
What is background?
President Lincoln declared that all enslaved African Americans in the rebellious states were free in his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on this date.
What is September 22, 1862?
This kept a balance between free states and slave states. Thus, all states below the 36*30’ latitude line would allow slavery. Also, slavery would not be allowed in states above this line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The South wanted to spread slavery into territories west of the this River.
What is the Mississippi?
A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
What is a narrative?
Exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.
What is tyrannical?
Lincoln said that this Union Army would free and protect enslaved people.
What is the Union?
Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in this state.
What is Kentucky?
1816: Lincoln’s family moved to this state, and Lincoln helped his father with farming.
What is Indiana?
Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
What is secede?